Real-Time Deduping At Scale with Redis — Deduping at scale is a hard problem and Tapjoy share a lot of details of how they use Redis to do it on over 2 million analytics messages per minute arriving in an ‘at-least-once’ style.

Has Hadoop Failed Us? — Alex Woodie brings together several people from across the industry to question if the Hadoop dream of unifying data and compute in a distributed manner has become too expensive and complex.